Loma Prieta Earthquake At 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was severely shaken for 15 seconds by the Loma Prieta earthquake located to the south on the San Andreas fault near Santa Cruz. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had collapsed. ... The pattern of damage related to liquefaction and soil consolidation in San Francisco and Oakland is similar to that of 1906. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had collapsed. ... The pattern of damage related to liquefaction and soil consolidation in San Francisco and Oakland is similar ...

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These include the emigrants that were moving to Oregon, those who wanted to take California from Mexico, and those that wanted San Francisco itself. ... The harbor contained in San Francisco, however, drew attention to the area. "We ought to have the Bay of San Francisco. ... Control of California as a whole and control of the Bay of San Francisco were some factors that contributed to the growth. ...

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Loma Prieta Earthquake At 5:04 PM on October 17, 1989, the San Francisco Bay Area was severely shaken for 15 seconds by the Loma Prieta earthquake located to the south on the San Andreas fault near Santa Cruz. Although the quake did not tear the ground surface, it collapsed some buildings and freeway overpasses built upon the soft "bayfill" sediment in San Francisco and Oakland. ... The Loma Prieta quake was the largest earthquake to occur in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906, and the largest, at the time, anywhere in California since 1952. ... A section of the San Francisco-Oakland ...

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.), who resides in San Francisco, California with her partner of nine years. ... The patient indicates that since obtaining her license in 2009, she has employment with the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, as an emergency room Physician Assistant. ... Family Background This patient was born and raised in the San Francisco area. ... Concerned Entities Medical Board of California and University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Referral Source Employer: UCSF Medical Center Wellbeing Committee The patient is a 39-year old female from San Francisco, California wh...

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The San Andreas Fault runs along most of California's coastline "from northern California southward to Cajon Pass near San Bernardino" (Schulz 1, a distance of over 800 miles. ... In terms of the San Andreas Fault, these time intervals in the past have been around 150 years. The last major quake along the fault occurred in 1906 at the San Francisco Bay (106 years ago). However, the last big one to hit the southern region of the San Andreas was in 1857 (Schulz 1). ... The two major earthquakes previously recorded along the fault (the great San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and the great For...

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San Francisco was a small port town of about a few hundred residents. ... In San Francisco there would be "thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of every kind rotting in the streets from the difficulty of getting storage when the rainy season first commenced." ... Finally the small port town called San Francisco grew enormous and eventually into the vast city we know today. ... San Francisco and the mining towns became one big melting pot of nationalities. ... Most immigrants that arrived in California came by boat and went through San Francisco. ...

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It takes place on Folsom street between 8th and 13th streets in San Francisco's south market district. ... People expressed their feelings, happiness, pleasure, by saying "this is what San Francisco's about "being crazy and expressing yourself where else can you do this? ... The roots of my culture and values are so strong and deepen that they are not allowing me to accept this crazy San Francisco City culture. ...

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Alcatraz Island is one of the most popular tourist destinations of San Francisco. ... It was a famous for federal prison in San Francisco Bay during the time of 19 century. ... The island is easily accessible from any where including San Francisco Bay and every one can go their to visit in normal day hour. ... San Francisco is usually windy and cold. ... The morning was not cold enough which surprised me lot but when we were in the top of boat we feel little cold but the beautiful view of Alcatraz Island and san Francisco city from boat it really get chance to feel beauty of Alcatraz Island ...

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There are two plans: one system connecting San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and another bridging Los Angeles and Nevada. ... Imagine what it would be like speeding up the scenic California coast, making it to San Francisco quicker than the "quick and easy" flights often advertised. ... Another potential problem is that our tickets would be too expensive, as it would make sense to drive to San Francisco or Las Vegas at a lower cost. ... There would be train stations in San Diego, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, Bakersfield, and some other ...

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After word spread about the gold rush in California, Levi decided to travel west to San Francisco to get rich. ... When Strauss arrived in San Francisco during March of 1853, he established a wholesale dry-goods store that was located on 90 Sacramento Street. ... Strauss was a very generous man, he gave away 28 scholarships to the University of California and he also donated to many of the orphanages in the San Francisco area. ... On September 27, Strauss died in San Fransisco During his time, his company (Levi Strauss & Co.)was worth 6 million dollars. ...

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She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. ... The senator reinforces her preservation views of natural resources through her support of the healthy forest movement, the Headwater's Forest agreement, and the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration. ... Also significantly, there is the restoration of the San Fran Bay Wetlands, which is considered the most prevalent in the state of California. This was an exchange of both private and public subsidy for "16,500 acres of salt ponds along the S...

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I was thinking that I wouldn't have much to say about homelessness but I actually do. I have a friend who worked in a Pizza place in Berkeley, California, a place with many faces and beliefs, so to see a homeless in Berkeley is not strange at all. He used to bump into this homeless man that alw...

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I hadn't ever heard of this place but he told me it was in California and close to San Francisco I was interested. My favorite football team is the 49ers so I really want to go just because I can visit San Francisco at the same time he said I had a week to think about. ...

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The majority of Hispanics are located in San Francisco, San Diego, san Antonio, Sacramento, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago. ... The top five Hispanic cities in order of rank are: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago. ...

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You see, the "Greygoose" is a shuttle bus for inmates traveling between prisons, and my destination today is San Quentin State prison. ... As we travel up I80 past the San Francisco bay I am struck with fear, wondering what will happen to me in there and if I will I ever get out alive. ... You see, San Quentin is not only home of California's only still operational gas chamber, it is also mainly used for receiving inmates and housing them until they get classified as to what type of prison they belong in. ...

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Marijuana Marijuana (pot,) is one of the most widely used recreational drugs. The legalization of marijuana is one of the most controversial debates in today's government. For years the debate to legalize this drug has grown stronger and stronger. There are various arguments for and against the ...

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The earthquake was centered about 60 miles south of San Francisco and could be felt as far away as San Diego. This earthquake was the first major event to occur along the San Andreas Fault zone since 1906. ... The Loma Prieta earthquake was unique because the type of seismic movement wasn't typical of the San Andres Fault system. ... This type of motion is not typical of the San Andreas Fault and suggests that the earthquake occurred on a sub-parallel fault and not on the San Andreas itself. The potential for a damaging earthquake on the San Andreas Fault system in the Santa Cruz Mount...

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Beginning in the early 1850 san Francisco began to see it's first drastic immigration of Chinese. ... Once the women arrive in San Fransisco they then had to deal with heavy stigma that came with prostitution. ...

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Yet San Francisco, California continues to overrule the federal ruling, honoring gay marriages, performing ceremonies, and providing marriage certificates. There is no residency requirement in California to gain a license for marriage and this is one of the main reasons gay couples from around the U.S. travel to San Francisco to get married (Black, Sanders, Taylor, 2007). ...

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At 5:04 P.M. pacific daylight time, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred on the San Andreas Fault 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz. ... The 20-second earthquake was felt as far away as San Diego and Western Nevada. This earthquake was the largest to occur in the San Francisco Bay area since 1906 and the largest anywhere in California since 1952. ... Damage and business interruption estimates reached as high as $10 billion, which directed damage estimate as $6.8 billion (Gorgan & Vallerga 1). $2 billion of that amount is for San Francisco alone and Santa Cruz officials estimate that damage to th...

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However, the first documents of Marshall's discovery were not printed until March 15, 1848 in a San Francisco paper called the "Californian". ... A Mormon by the name of Sam Brannan, heard that gold might have been found at Sutter's Mill and traveled to San Francisco to find Sutter's mill occupied with many frantic miners panning for gold. ... Brannan took his gold and ran through the streets of San Francisco yelling "gold, gold, gold in the American River".... In 1894, California held its first strike organized by San Francisco and Sacramento Carpenters who pushed for a whole...

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Judges stall California recall vote: High court appeal likely. The article is about the recounting of votes in the California elections. The federal appeals court postponed the state's "guber-national" recall. It is said that the decisions will most likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court....

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No More Accidents Bike helmet safety is a big problem in our society. People do not realize that a bike helmet to a biker is the same as a seat belt to a motorist. We as bikers need all the protection that we can get since we don't have the tank-like protection of a "88 Ford Tempo. So now I am...

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Expansion of rail service in California had one result that was never anticipated by the businessmen and politicians of San Francisco and Sacramento who worked so hard for the transcontinental link; Northern California lost its monopoly on the state's population and wealth. ... Still, the 1890 census showed that the population of Los Angeles and San Diego had quadrupled in ten years. The period in which San Francisco and northern California could expect to dominate state government and politics was drawing to a close. ... The major deposits were in the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Barbara Co...

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Immigration: Here We Go Again Although immigration issues were platforms for political campaigns in the past, most notable the reelection campaign of Pete Wilson, subsequent campaigns have failed when focusing on this issue. That changed however in the election campaign for Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...

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